Sir Thomas More (The Blessed Thomas More)
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We cannot tell where he is in earnest and where he begins to jest. It is our business to find out. More himself is never so pleased as when we have guessed wrong and taken a joke or a flash of humour seriously. He would have been hugely delighted to know that a day would come when a poet and a fellow-countryman, William Morris, would discover in Utopia a gospel of socialism.
The mistake would have struck him as so funny that he would have taken good care not to dispel it.
He must have been char...med, too, when certain simple souls, seized with admiration and pity for the inhabitants of Utopia, talked of chartering a ship and sending out missionaries.
" The true notion of Utopia is, however," writes Sir James Mackintosh, " that it intimates a variety of doctrines, and exhibits a multiplicity of projects which the writer regards with almost every possible degree of approbation and shade of assent, from the frontiers of serious and entire belief, through gradations of descending plausibility, where the lowest are scarcely more than the exercises of ingenuity, and to which some wild paradoxes are 124 THOMAS MORE appended, either as vehicle, or as an easy means (if necessary) of disavowing the serious intention of the whole of this Platonic fiction." It is useless to add that all More's pleasure would have been spoiled if he had taken us into his confidence on the degree of seriousness he attached to each of his theories.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We cannot tell where he is in earnest and where he begins to jest. It is our business to find out. More himself is never so pleased as when we have guessed wrong and taken a joke or a flash of humour seriously. He would have been hugely delighted to know that a day would come when a poet and a fellow-countryman, William Morris, would discover in Utopia a gospel of socialism.
The mistake would have struck him as so funny that he would have taken good care not to dispel it.
He must have been char...med, too, when certain simple souls, seized with admiration and pity for the inhabitants of Utopia, talked of chartering a ship and sending out missionaries.
" The true notion of Utopia is, however," writes Sir James Mackintosh, " that it intimates a variety of doctrines, and exhibits a multiplicity of projects which the writer regards with almost every possible degree of approbation and shade of assent, from the frontiers of serious and entire belief, through gradations of descending plausibility, where the lowest are scarcely more than the exercises of ingenuity, and to which some wild paradoxes are 124 THOMAS MORE appended, either as vehicle, or as an easy means (if necessary) of disavowing the serious intention of the whole of this Platonic fiction." It is useless to add that all More's pleasure would have been spoiled if he had taken us into his confidence on the degree of seriousness he attached to each of his theories.
What to read after Sir Thomas More (The Blessed Thomas More)?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Bremond, Henri, 1865-1933 to read onlineMoreLess
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